New fanart: Speedrun and Ciphertext
After my challenge to come up with your own Sandra and Woo speedrun, one of our readers, Lasse, actually submitted one:
Here is what he has to say about his submission:
I present to you a speedrun of Sandra and Woo in only 3.7 panels using the famous, but difficult to execute “XSS strategy.” Doesn’t work in the printed comic, only for the browser-variant. Category: Any%.
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Our long-time reader Moatl sent me a ciphertext. In this own words, he took three of my texts, which he calls a “logical” choice, and adjusted them to create the following ciphertext (PDF version):
Since Moatl is German, the base texts may be from our German website. I did not have a thorough look at it yet. But the ciphertext surely look a lot like it’s been written in a shorthand variant. The three paragraphs of the ciphertext certainly correspond to the three texts he spoke of. They are rather short, so my first guess would be that they’re based on the transcripts of Sandra and Woo strips dealing with cryptography.
Time to investigate, I think. I will take the challenge, but next week will be another very busy week for me, so I will do it when I feel like it. You can try it yourself, of course.
This is actually cool and challenging!
I can’t read the handwriting though.
Otherwise really cool!
It looks like a kind of shorthand, maybe pitman or teeline.
Some of this makes sense to me, but what is [stauliterg](http://steno.tu-clausthal.de/?DIR=DEK&Input=stauliterg&Proof=0&Scherung=15) supposed to mean?
It’s nice to see some people took that challenge. 🙂
Some of you are close to a approach, but not close enough, yet. ;P
BTW: This is not my own handwriting, but I »programmed« it with help of the spath3-calligraphy library for TikZ in LaTeX.
Hey @Moatl, I think your solution looks nicer than Mr. Šarman’s I linked to, but your “ko” is quite strange and looks more like a “kre” to me, but then I should admit I have not trained myself to read or write fluently and had to rely on help from elsewhere once I recognized the basic system.
Ibidem wrote:
Thank you very much for the flowers. 🙂
Hm, this might be a hint, that I used an other system? 😇
Ah, I get it. Cool! Awesome! Beautiful! How much manual work is it to get a text into something your spath3-code can deal with? Do you only have to annotate ambiguities, or is there some non-TikZ-code involved to help with trans-x-ion, or is most of it manual and only one of the last few steps in TikZ?
@ Ibidem:
Sorry for my late reply, but I was on holidays.
Unfortunately my LaTeX macros are very rudimentary, yet; mainly for setting up different stroke widths and reducing typing when setting up and changing »the pen«. Drawing is done with normal TikZ code: straight lines, arcs and splines (mostly for connecting). Currently I’m working on a C++ code for automation. The intention for the »cypher sheet« above was mostly for getting exercise in typesetting a longer text by hand to get experience for handling details.
Hello,
Nice post…